“…New to this edition are study boxes which apply public international law to recent events and examine controversial legal issues in a constructive way, including the ongoing armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the murder of Jamal Khashoggi and the judicial battle of Julian Assange. …”

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“…Beginning with the mystery of paired murders during East Timor's failed decolonization in 1975 and the final flurry of state-sponsored violence in 1999, Kammen combines an archival trail and rich oral interviews to reconstruct the history of the leading families of Maubara from 1712 until 2012. …”

“…Beginning with the mystery of paired murders during East Timor's failed decolonization in 1975 and the final flurry of state-sponsored violence in 1999, Kammen combines an archival trail and rich oral interviews to reconstruct the history of the leading families of Maubara from 1712 until 2012. …”

“…"Threat assessment is a method used by mental health and law enforcement professionals to assess the risk of intended violence toward a specific target, such as attacks and assassinations of public figures, workplace homicides, mass murders, school shootings, and acts of terrorism, both domestic and foreign. …”

“…With a cast ranging from motor-racing princes through sexy Egyptian mummies and a feminist serial murderer to starlets touting breast-enhancement techniques, this book educates, enlightens, and entertains.’…”

“…Consider the firestorm of protest that resulted when the defense for Colin Ferguson, the gunman who murdered numerous passengers on a New York commuter train, claimed it was considering a black rage defense. …”

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“…Interviewees include Margaret Sixel ( Mad Max: Fury Road ), Tom Cross ( Whiplash, La La Land ), Pietro Scalia ( The Martian , JFK ), Stephen Mirrione ( The Revenant ), Ann Coates ( Lawrence of Arabia, Murder on the Orient Express ), Joe Walker ( 12 Years a Slave , Sicario ), Kelley Dixon ( Breaking Bad , The Walking Dead ), and many more. …”

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“…Reflecting upon his experience making his 2010 feature film Mothers, a cinematic triptych interweaving three narratives that are each, in their own way, about the often tenuous lines between truth and fiction, and one of which actually morphs into a documentary about the aftermath in a small Macedonian town where three retired cleaning women were found raped and killed in 2008 and the murderer turned out to be the journalist covering the story for a major Macedonian newspaper, the Oscar-nominated Macedonian-born and New York-based writer-director Milcho Manchevski writes that, "Most of us look at films differently or accept stories in a different way if we believe that they are true. …”

“…Disgust, fear, hatred, murderousness and defiance: a selection of unwanted and recalcitrant feelings that can generate discomfort and resistance and are often held responsible for many problems in the political sphere. …”

“…Emerging in a summer of protest following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota and in the midst of the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic ("'rona and rebellion"), Lady Don't Take No! …”

“…Sie bietet tiefe Einblicke in die Verquickung von Historiographie, Gesellschaft und Politik in der europaweiten Krisen- und Umbruchszeit des Nationalismus Successive generations have remembered Marie de' Medici (1575-1642), Queen of France, as an incompetent regent, obsessed with power and alleged to have murdered her husband. Moreover, historians often saw no more to her cultural work and politics than a female and Italian parenthesis between the reign of Henry IV and the ministry of Richelieu. …”

“…Some of them are nearly forgotten. They were murdered or had to emigrate in a land with another language, the chance to be able to continue the writing career was very small. …”

“…For this reason polish children from orphanages, schools, forster parents, parents who refused to sign the "Volksliste" and parents who had been murdered or sent to forced labor or concentration camps had to have a "racial" examination - children who possessed the Nordic features were regarded as suitable for the "Germanization" and were distributed in special children homes. …”

“…Otto Leichter lost his closest reliable person, the mother of his children, his sexual partner and his most important political companion, and he suffered very hard on the separation.Käthe Leichter, the real addressee could not ever see these words (she was murdered at concentration camp in 1942), but the diary in letters is a really extraordinary source for historical research, that should be available for a greater number of readers as scientific edition…”